Cold and Rainy
It's cold and rainy this morning. It was hard to get out of bed. It's that kind of morning. The chipmunk is out and about as usual. One little sparrow flew down to the bird feeder, saw the chipmunk on the edge of the feeder and put on his brakes and turned away in mid air, but then came back a few seconds later and went to the opposite side of the feeder. A few minutes later, five or six little sparrows flew up from the ground where they'd been eating the fallen seeds and I hadn't even noticed them. They just blend in with the brown of the earth and when you look casually, you don't see them.
The clouds are even darker now than when I first got up and I just heard some thunder. It seems like it's too cold for a thunder storm. People are gathering in for the early service in the Lutheran Church just down the street. They walk slowly under umbrellas but some hardy souls hunch their shoulders and push through the rain to the shelter of the sanctuary. Soon I'll be dashing out to our car to drive to church. We don't have an early service.
I dreamed last night that I was criving our big Chevy Caprice 130 miles to my dad, to have him help me get it to the garage to be fixed. I never drive this car. It's too big for me and I don't feel safe driving it. I was surprised in my dream that I was driving it such a long distance when I won't drive it around town.
The rain is pouring down very hard now. The birds and chipmunk have gone to shelter. People who are arriving to church now without an umbrella are running to get inside the building. A man with a big black umbrella strolled slowly across the street. A young man without an umbrella threw something white over his head and did the sprint.
It's tempting to just sit here and watch the people deal with the rain, but now it's time for me to get dressed for church. Maybe it will stop raining by the time it's my turn to head for church. At least I can hope so!
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